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• Sergeant William Mason

  New Zealand's early police officers were well known in the towns which they watched over. Often they would go out of their way to gain the public's trust...

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• Sybil Lupp, racing driver

  Sybil (or Sibyl as is shown on the birth registrar) was born in Hawke's Bay in 1916. In the early 1920s, her family moved back to Blenheim, where...

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• Te Tauihu and World War One

  The Prow remembers World War One, August 1914 to November 1918 Stories which speak of Nelson connections with the war have been added to the Prow over the years....

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• Daffodil Day

  *Daffodil Day - supporting 'our boys'* Spending Christmas 1915 in the trenches of World War I was made cheerier for Nelson soldiers after Provincial spring fundraising efforts, and the...

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• Farm Settlements for Returned Soldiers

  During World War I (1914-1918) the New Zealand Government decreed that soldiers returning from overseas service would be given the opportunity to settle on farms of their own, specially...

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